View to a Scooter
Home for lunch and some tennis ball tossing with the dogs. Getting ready to go back to work, I see the Vespa waiting through the front door. The weather is warm and has me thinking winter is over. But it’s February and plenty of time for sub-zero weather and heavy snowfalls. Until then, I’ll take the riding as I can get it.
Dinner Run
When the weather is warm I seem to stop to pick up dinner more often. Not sure what process is at work. Maybe it’s just a scheme on my part to extend the ride at the end of the day. Regardless, the view from the backside of Kelly’s Steak and Seafood in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania probably won’t make it on their website.
Was nice to take home a crab cake sandwich and a prime rib sandwich. The dogs couldn’t decide which they were more interested in…
Nice views! And any ploy to extend the ride is a good one…
Agreed!
Saw the line of garbage containers and decided this was not from Steve’s front door!
However given the sunshine of the last two or three days and the unusually warm temperatures (19C on my back deck thermometer, in the shade) tells me you had best just keep riding Steve as winter will, not shall return. Numerous motorcycles of both large and small displacement have been seen today February 23; wondering if the riders are taking the afternoon off from employment or are they retired folk.
Scooters i.e. Vespas are not a common sight in these parts; partly as there no dealers except in Toronto where there is but one as I recall. Then too a motorcycle
of small displacement can be better for most. My 72 year old female friend who was on the oldest rider and on a 250cc Yamaha on the Van Buren Sisters 100th anniversary ride from NYC and Springfield to San Francisco this past summer likes a small displacement machine.
So much so she has ordered a new Indian built BMW 315. Delivery will be in May, one per dealer in Canada; there are far more BMW car dealers here than motorcycle dealers.
Can’t see the advantage of car with a roundel of a propeller; it’s just another form of expensive transport IMO.
I’ll definitely keep riding. Tomorrow I need the van so I’ll be passing up the chance.
Vespa scooters aren’t common here either. Occasionally I’ll see one but not often. Cruiser style machines are the most common.
BMW definitely brings a startling price tag.
“BMW definitely brings a startling price tag.”
Ran into an fellow member from the old dirt bike riding community whilst out and about on my wife’s XT225 yesterday . My friend was riding a current BMW R12GSA which of course dwarfed the little Yamaha. He told me that his bike cost north of thirty-two thousand dollars. Now those are Cdn dollars but nonetheless … Yikes!
It’s incredible what some motorcycles cost. And that particular BMW is a monster. Hard to imagine riding it off road.
I cannot remember being overdressed or having ridden a motorbike in February in Ontario. The last few days have been absolutely scrumptious culminating this afternoon in my first ride of this new season. I agree, this is much too good to be true.
Same here. Exceptional weather.
Is that a hippo on the roof of the yellow building? Even when I enlarge the image, it looks like a hippo’s ass to me. LOL
No, it’s a steer. It’s been there since it was the Boalsburg Steakhouse. I think it appear in the early 1960s. Here’s a close up shot of the animal.
Thanks! I know a big fiberglass animal butt when I see one.
I split my attention on rides yesterday. In the morning I took out the 150cc Chinese scooter for a car part and dinner supply run. In the afternoon my motorcycle side tugged and I pulled out the 250 Nighthawk for a trip to McDonald’s for a small sundae. Hopefully the weather holds a few more days. I have other bikes and a scooter to dust off.
Sounds like a great day Jim. I confess I sneak to Dairy Queen every so often for a small chocolate cone.
The weather here has been fantastic. But all things must come to an end.
Well, now: It’s not unusual (hard to say that and not hear Tom Jones screaming in my mind’s ear…guess you have to be past a certain age for that) to get an especially-warm day or two in February: what’s strange is to have that mild weather extend well into nighttime and then pick up again the following morning. I was, frankly, dumbstruck.
Had to head into Gotham for an IT gig, decided to ride Melody the six miles to Long Branch station (again, more trains to NYC than from Asbury)…but was positively stumped on what the hell to wear – thermals? Sweater under riding jacket? Regular leather gloves or gauntlets? It was barely breaking 50 degrees when I left the house in the morning, and just a bit north of that when I got back on the bike for the ride home early evening, but in-between? Almost sweltering: the train on the ride home had the air conditioning on. In February.
But, what the hell, the riding was just terrific.
And, Kelly’s sounds like my kind of eatery.
The weather has everything turned upside down. Just came in from a walk. Colder now. But there are so many plants out of the ground, blossoms on trees and shrubs, all to die when the hard freeze returns. But it was nice to have warm days and nights followed by a warm morning. I suppose those living in the warm climates don’t understand.
The riding is a terrific change isn’t it…
Kelly’s is pretty nice though I seldom eat inside anymore. And then only back in the bar.